<h1>H1</h1><h2>H2</h2><p>paragraph of text that will be turned into a paragraph element. It can go over several lines with line breaks, it will be turned into a contiguous paragraph element.</p><p>You can force a linebreak in your paragraph text<br>thusly.</p><ul>
<li>a list element<ul><li>sub list element</li></ul>
</li>
<li>2nd list element</li>
</ul><pre>pre formatted text

$ ls -la
total 56
drwxr-xr-x   6 nferrier users  4096 Jul  5 23:10 .
drwxr-x--- 120 nferrier users 12288 Jul  5 19:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 nferrier users  4096 Jul  5 18:19 bin
-rw-r--r--   1 nferrier users     6 Jul  5 18:19 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x   4 nferrier users  4096 Jul  5 23:10 .hg
-rw-r--r--   1 nferrier users  1182 Jul  5 18:19 HISTORY.md
-rw-r--r--   1 nferrier users   562 Jul  5 18:19 .kick
drwxr-xr-x   3 nferrier users  4096 Jul  5 18:19 lib
-rw-r--r--   1 nferrier users  1050 Jul  5 18:19 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--   1 nferrier users  1312 Jul  5 18:19 Rakefile
-rw-r--r--   1 nferrier users  3390 Jul  5 18:19 README.md
drwxr-xr-x   3 nferrier users  4096 Jul  5 18:19 test</pre>